CaseCircle1997
Ontario (Canada), ON, Canada
Green doughnut passing directly overhead at high speed (90 degree arc in 3 seconds).
Report quality: Moderate43/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-20
- Where
- Ontario (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.063, -117.651 · fallback
- Slug
- circle-over-ontario-canada-on-1997-51b9ff
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Ontario (Canada), Canada shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from Canada in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.